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midwich – cut flowers

CD-r on Memoirs of an Aesthete, edition of 50.

midwich – october in yorkshire

8cm CD-r on Zanntone in miniature DVD case with artwork by Billy Sprague, edition of 50.

new stuff

midwich – running repairs

CD-r, 3 tracks, 50 minutes, deluxe hand-made packaging, edition of 60 on Striate Cortex.

‘new territories’, the first 20 minutes, is a multi-limbed monster of ghost tones and gutter fuzz.  An hydraulic, ka-thumping wobble provides motorik momentum.  Then we have ’pennine interlude’ which takes you from the wilds of Lancashire back to the civilisation of Yorkshire in just two minutes and seventeen seconds.  Listen for the pings.  Lastly, we have ‘bosky’ – a thick, viscous drone that grows increasingly more intense and insistent over (much of) its 26 minute length.  Properly invigorating, in my humble opinion.  More details and mp3 clips can be found here.

This album breaks new ground for me: it is the first time midwich has recorded as a duo, it is the first time the midwich sound has not been sourced entirely from my battered MC-303, it contains a level of layering and processing (and thus: work) hitherto alien to me and, at 50 minutes, it is the longest demand I have ever made on your attention.  It is also a wonderful physical object packaged with all the care and attention you’d expect from Striate Cortex.

Buy here for a mere £4 plus postage.

midwich – faraday cage

tape, 3 tracks, 44 minutes, Matching Head.

First of the new wave of midwich releases.  Dirtier, noisier and darker than the crystalline, life-affirming fare to be found on other stuff by me.  The three tracks in short: ‘part one: magnets’ is an industrial folk drone, corrosive for a refreshing brain-scouring effect, ‘part two: f4jb’ is a bristling, high voltage asymmetric throb that smells of ozone and ‘part three: feathered machinery’ is a 20 minute epic of digestive rumbling and guttering arc lights.  More details and mp3 clips to be found here.  Contact Lee Stokoe at lee_stokoe@hotmail.com to sort out paypal and whatnot.  Why not buy other great stuff from the matching head catalogue?

Truant – The Truant Accord

CD-r, 5 tracks, 37 minutes, Memoirs of a Flatworm, edition of 100 copies with Phil Todd artwork.

Being the long lost second album of the super-group made up of Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations), Michael Clough (PRP Group, Klunk) and me.  An extended history of the Truant phenomenon can be read here whilst you listen to an mp3 of our first album, released on FFR.  A bang-on review and further details can be seen here and you can purchase this via the Ashtray Navigations blog here.

still available

midwich-vs-culver  &  culver-vs-midwich – ii

Two fiercely tape-only releases (no mp3 clips this time, mate) constructed from real tape-loops spliced by my own fair hand and augmented by midwichian drones and culveresque rumblings.  Recorded straddling 2002 and 2003.  Mesmerising and surprisingly contemplative in places despite being proper noise throughout.  See ‘faraday cage’ listing above for details of how to contact Lee Stokoe/Matching Head.

midwich – three days in, four to go

CD-r, four tracks, 33 minutes, Carbon, edition of 75 in silk-screened sleeves, 2003

My favourite ever midwich album title.  I’m very glad that it is still available (though I suppose Joe Carbon would have preferred it to have sold out nine years ago…).  Bubbling drone and r-r-repetition in a smart, simple and beautiful hand-printed, each-one-is-a-bit-different sleeve.  The eponymous track, lasting a full 20 minutes, is a more considered (and better) variation on the same theme as the bombastic ‘this whole process’.  Mp3 clips from ‘snows’, ‘like love’ and ‘three days in, four to go’ here.  Buy from Carbon here (search for ‘midwich’).

self-released and fencing flatworm related

Midwich & The Skull Mask – split – ALL UK COPIES GONE

8cm CD-r, 2 tracks, 20 minutes, edition of 50 each in a unique sleeve.

For a full account of this release including mp3 clips see here, for a review from Joe Posset see also here.  Miguel’s share has finally arrived in Mexico so I’m sure he’d be delighted to organise an international trade.  Drop him a line at: lamancha@rocketmail.com.  We may make these tracks available to download sometime in the future.

midwich – raised ironworks – SOLD OUT! – see discography page for free download

8cm CD-r, 4 tracks, 19 minutes, edition of 50

Four tracks originally recorded for various projects which then failed to surface.  One track appeared in a different form on the long sold-out Pjorn (0)72 compilation but over 17 minutes of this music is previously unreleased.  Expect: shards of broken mirror, grinding robo-rhythms, sunlight on the river – golden apples bobbing, emotionally overloaded clockwork rave…

midwich – months, years – SOLD OUT! – see discography page for free download

8cm CD-r, 1 track, 21 minutes, edition of 50

Originally released ten years ago as one half of a split CD-r with the lovely Karina ESP on the defunct label Trademarked Industries.  This epic of Yorkshire Nothing Music is two parts immersive, solvent fuzz to one part soul-coddling womb-throb.  A must-have for the aficionado of ego-dissolving drone.

birchville cat motel – nurse

CD-r, 1 track, 31 and three-quarter minutes, second and final edition of 10, fencing flatworm recordings, ff027

This is your absolute final chance to get hold of this fondly remembered release, on the influential fencing flatworm recordings, in its lovely original cover.  Half an hour of beautifully enveloping organic drone by Campbell Kneale, the hardest working man in drone-business, once ubiquitous as BCM but now better known as Our Love Will Destroy The World.  And here is a little mp3 clip.

Cost of birchville cat motel CD-r:

This CD-r is £4 including postage and packaging within the UK or £6 including postage and packing to anywhere else in the world.

Ordering details:

Overseas orders require payment via Paypal.  Paypal preferred if you are in the UK but, if that proves inconvenient, get in touch and we’ll arrange something.  I may consider trades – no harm in asking.

Make payments to, and contact me via, r.w.hayler@leeds.ac.uk